A long exposure photo shows smoke rising as lava flows from the crater of Mount Slamet volcano before dawn, as seen from Brebes town in Indonesia's Central Java province. Indonesian authorities have put the Mount Slamet volcano on the second-highest alert level after it erupted 38 times on Thursday, spewing lava some 5,000 feet into the air.

Isabella Galls, 10, shows her excitement over trying on new glasses with her mom, Roxana Galls, during the first day of a four-day Care Harbor free clinic that provides medical, dental and vision care to the uninsured, underinsured and at risk at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena.

Alex and Sherri Groff of Oaklyn, N.J., watch a vintage baseball game during the 2014 Base-Ball Exhibition & Fair at the Navy Yard in Philadelphia. The clubs play baseball according to rules of the game as it was played in 1864.

A woman cooks a meal over an open fire in Ilovaisk, Ukraine, which has endured weeks of heavy fighting recently. Ilovaisk, which is about an hour outside of the separatist-held city of Donetsk, saw sustained shelling in August and is still the site of fighting between Ukrainian troops and the Russia-backed separatists.

Scottish citizens pass a bagpiper in Edinburgh, Scotland. Polls are showing that the Yes and No camps are neck and neck in the Scottish Independence referendum. Scots will vote whether Scotland should become an independent country Sept. 18.

Kyrgyz (blue) and Turkish (red) riders play the traditional Central Asian sport buzkashi in the first World Nomad Games in Cholpon-Ata, Kyrgyzstan. Mounted players compete for points by throwing a stuffed sheepskin into a well. Teams of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Mongolia and Tajikistan take part in the games.

The Tribute in Light illuminates the sky above Lower Manhattan on the eve of the 13th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Two columns of light created by 88 searchlights commemorate the World Trade Center Twin Towers that were destroyed in the attacks.

A woman places flowers in the inscribed names of victims along the edge of the North Memorial Pool during 13th anniversary observances of the Sept. 11 terror attacks on the World Trade Center in New York.

Tears dampen Oscar Pistorius' face as a judge begins to announce her verdict at the High Court in Pretoria in his trial in the 2013 Valentine's Day shooting death of his girlfriend. The judge found that Pistorius was not guilty of the premeditated murder of Reeva Steenkamp, dismissing the most serious of the charges against him.

Red Cross health workers wearing protective suits carry the body of an Ebola victim from a garage in Monrovia, Liberia. The World Health Organization has warned that Liberia, already hardest-hit by the Ebola outbreak ravaging West Africa, should brace for thousands of new cases in the coming weeks.

A man is arrested in Berkeley, Mo., near the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, where protesters' attempts to shut down Interstate 70 by walking onto the highway were thwarted by police. Organizers said the protest was designed as an act of nonviolent civil disobedience in the wake of the shooting death of Michael Brown, an unarmed, black 18-year-old, by a white police officer on Aug. 9.

Catalonian flags are prominently displayed during a rally in Barcelona, where separatists -- inspired by a pending independence vote in Scotland -- were trying to raise support for a similar vote on Catalonia's secession from Spain, which the central government in Madrid insists would be illegal.

A Palestinian woman walks past a destroyed house in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. Israel's deputy foreign minister,Tzahi Hanegbi , warned that Hamas was likely to resume "violence" if it feels it has made no political gains from upcoming talks in Cairo.

Residents of the Morro da Mineira favela in Rio de Janeiro play on a newly built soccer field that has energy-capturing tiles installed under its artificial turf that covert the players' footsteps into power for the lights that illuminate the field.
h powered by player's footsteps, in Rio de Janeiro. The project, sponsored by British oil giant Shell, has around 200 energy-capturing tiles installed along the width and breadth of the field and covered by a layer of AstroTurf.

A couple stands in front of the moon in Burgos, Spain, on Tuesday. The full moon is the third and final supermoon of 2014. The phenomenon, which scientists call a perigee moon, occurs when the moon is near the horizon and appears larger and brighter than other full moons.

Smoke rises in the sky as a factory burns after an explosion in Ritterhude, Germany, on Tuesday. According to local media, the explosion occurred at a chemical plants area where lacquer companies Organo Fluid and Bergolin have sites.

Kashmiri houseboats and houses submerged by floodwater can be seen from an Indian Air Force helicopter during rescue and relief operations in Dal Lake in Srinagar on Wednesday. More than 450 people have died in the flooding that has left hundreds of thousands of people stranded in India and Pakistan.

Performers rest after having their bodies painted in the likeness of tigers for the annual Pulikali, or tiger dance, in Thrissur, in the southern Indian state of Kerala, on Wednesday. The tiger dance is performed during Onam, an annual harvest festival.

A guard stands above a wall featuring dozens of sculptures of Chinese soldiers outside a shopping mall in Beijing on Wednesday. China's art scene continues to grow, and oftentimes art exhibits are held at shopping venues in order to attract more customers.

Comedy legend Mel Brooks displays his hands, including a fake extra finger that he attached to his left one, after he placed his hands in wet concrete during a ceremony at the TLC Chinese Theatre IMAX in Hollywood.

A U.S. Border Patrol agent inspects the bank of the Rio Grande River across from Mexico near McAllen, Texas. Although the numbers of immigrant families and unaccompanied minors crossing illegally into the area have decreased from a springtime high, thousands continue to cross the border illegally into the United States.

The moon rises with an orange glow as people watch from a rock cliff at Bondi Beach in Sydney. The "supermoon," known to scientists as a perigee moon, occurs when Earth's neighbor appears at its largest and brightest compared to other full moons when it orbits closer to our planet.

A Pro-Russia rebel looks at pieces of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 plane near village of Rozsypne, eastern Ukraine. The Dutch team investigating the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine says the crash was likely caused by the plane being hit by multiple "high-energy objects from outside the aircraft." The preliminary report published Tuesday by the Dutch Safety Board stopped short of saying the Boeing 777 was shot down by a surface-to-air missile, but its findings appear to point to that conclusion.

A wounded Syrian child is carried into a makeshift hospital in the rebel-held town of Douma near Damascus, after reported airstrikes by Syrian government forces that killed over 10 people and wounded dozens. Douma is a rebel bastion northeast of Damascus, which has been under suffocating army siege for more than a year.

A Moroccan woman collects red seaweed, known locally as "red gold," on the beach in El Jadida roughly 60 miles southwest of Casablanca, after boats came back from fishing. This mineral-rich seaweed on Morocco's Atlantic coast is becoming increasingly scarce due to over-harvesting.

An Indian tourist cries as she is airlifted into a chopper in Srinagar, India. The death toll from floods in Pakistan and India has reached 400 and has put more than half a million people in peril and rendered thousands homeless in the two neighboring states.

Pakistani rescue workers and residents search for worshipers in the rubble of a collapsed mosque in Lahore. At least nine worshipers were killed when the roof of the mosque collapsed and an unknown number are still buried under rubble.

The seventh annual Blessing of the Waves ceremony took place in Huntington Beach on Sunday morning, though the surf was deemed too big for the traditional paddle-out at the end of the service. Father Christian Mondor, foreground, leads a blessing before wading into the water near the Huntington Beach Pier. The service included Tongan Singers and a speech by former Olympic swimmer Janet Evans.

French choreographer and dancer Dominique Hervieu, director of the 16th edition of the Lyon Dance Biennial Festival, is shown Saturday in Lyon, France. The 45-show festival starts Wednesday and runs for three weeks.

Democracy activists are hit with a water cannon a "resistance workshop" Sunday in Hong Kong during to prepare for demonstrations involving civil disobedience. Pro-democracy groups vowed a "new era of civil disobedience" after Beijing imposed limits on future elections in the Chinese territory.

The Week in Pictures | September 8 – 14, 2014

Each week we bring you the very best in visual journalism. This week marked the 13th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people at the World Trade Center, Pentagon and on Flight 93. Remembrance ceremonies

Pretoria, South Africa: South African paralympian Oscar Pistorius leaves the High Court after the verdict in his murder trial where he was found guilty of culpable homicide.

Edinburgh, Scotland: Scottish citizens pass a bagpiper. Polls are showing that the Yes and No camps are neck and neck in the Scottish Independence referendum. Scots will vote whether Scotland should become an independent country Thursday.

Monrovia, Liberia: Red Cross workers wearing protective suits carry the body of a victim of the Ebola virus from a garage.

Yosemite: The wilderness near Yosemite National Park’s iconic Half Dome has been completely evacuated as a wind-driven wildfire continued to spread through the area. The Meadow fire, last measured at nearly 2,600 acres, forced authorities to evacuate dozens of hikers by helicopter after flames cut off their exit.

Mission, Texas: Families of Central American immigrants turn themselves in to U.S. Border Patrol agents after crossing the Rio Grande from Mexico.

Teahupoo, Tahiti: Takanui Smith rides a wave as fellow surfers and filming crew react during the shooting of a remake of the 1991 film “Point Break” in the Hava’e pass.

Rio de Janeiro: Residents of the Morro da Mineira favela play on the newly installed soccer field whose lights are powered by the players’ footsteps.

Huntington Beach: The seventh annual Blessing of the Waves ceremony took place Sunday though the surf was deemed too big for the traditional paddle-out at the end of the service.